It's been a different world for Glenn Beck ever since he vacated his post at Fox News, under…
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According to the Southlake Journal, Beck's proposal for the 60,774-square-foot building includes a 1,700-seat auditorium, production studios, and an eight-foot fortress wall—the latest in a long line of Glenn Beck walls. (So openly emotional in public, yet so secretive in private—what a paradoxical and complex figure! Glenn Beck is fascinating.) Beck should hook up some sort of water-spritzing device and turn his brand-new barrier into a Weeping Wall for his guests' enjoyment/emotional purging.

Glenn Beck has been milking his faux populism for ratings gold, but he's walled off his $4.2…
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It's implied that God, whose house Beck would be occupying, is totally on board with the project—which you can inspect for yourself via these official planning papers and pretty maps. However, God doesn't serve on either the zoning board or the city council—the bureaucratic bodies in whose hands the future of Beck's media empire lies. Some of the church's neighbors sound iffy on the plan, so it's possible that Beck will be turned away, like some under-appreciated outcast, and he will have to find some other megachurch or, better yet, an underground bunker made of concrete that will protect him from radiation and socialism creep.